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Ep 79. Create Your Lucky Girl Summer: Real Hacks to Bring you ‘Luck’ · The Manifestation Station

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You're listening to The Manifestation Station podcast.
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I'm your host, Holly Edwards, and together we can help create your magic.
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of The Manifestation Station.
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I'm your host, Holly Edwards. Thank you for coming back. Thanks for joining us.
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I think I want to say I should do this. I should look every time before I record
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a new episode I should look at the number but I'm pretty sure this might be
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episode number 79 or is it 78 I think it's 79,
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I can't believe it do you know what I was thinking about it the other day and
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we are two years two years into the podcast and I remember thinking,
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when I recorded my very first episode I remember thinking,
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oh you know it felt like a real,
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mountain to climb I thought how do I edit how do I set up a microphone,
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how do I plan my episodes how do I upload it how do I get it onto Spotify YouTube
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you know Apple Podcasts I thought how are you going to get to listen to it,
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and I also thought it's really difficult because when you're at the start of
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anything it's kind of like.
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Episode one or writing page one of your book, which I have also done because
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I'm writing my manifesting book at the moment.
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But that first step can feel quite heavy because you don't get the dopamine
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hit of the instant success or, you know, you upload your podcast and you kind
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of go, how many people are going to listen?
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And I think I've said this before, but I had, I think 17 listeners on the first episode,
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and I think that was probably a mixture of a few clients my lovely clients that
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have been there from day one which I love you all for,
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and then it was probably just family and some friends and some possible nosy
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people from my past who might have thought oh I'm gonna have a listen to that,
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anyway I'm rambling but the point is when I think back,
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the reason I started the podcast was because I was also writing my manifesting book at the time,
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and I was also holding manifesting events, guest speaking,
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and doing my one-to-one clients so I kind of thought that actually if it comes
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to or I should say in the manifesting world when it comes to publishing my book,
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I thought well these publishers aren't going to know who I am.
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They're not going to know who I am if I'm not posting on Instagram about manifesting
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at least I can point them in the direction,
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of my podcast and I can go there you go you can hear more about me there but
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I remember thinking is anyone going to listen is there anyone out there and
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lo and behold there you are
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you guys have been following I've had some of you following since day one and
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honestly I can't thank you enough for those people that have followed.
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From day dot and from people that have just found me as well.
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Thank you. And thank you for jumping on board. And I just want to say,
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this isn't what the episode's about. You've got me going off on a tandem here.
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But if you're starting something new, firstly, I want to say, please start it.
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I know I get a lot of messages from people saying, I really want to start a
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podcast. How did you do it?
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My advice to you is start just start what can hold you back is all the and this
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is the same as if you're trying to start a new business or a side hustle,
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what can happen is we can think of all the what ifs well you know when I wanted
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to start my podcast I thought.
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I don't know what microphone to use I don't know how to record what do I record
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on how do I upload it how do you get it onto Spotify and Apple?
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How do I get people to listen to it? And, you know, all of those questions probably
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put me off for a while because I thought, how on earth, how on earth do you do it?
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But whatever it is that you want to do, just start. Start journaling your business
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idea. Take those first steps. Email.
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If you want to start a podcast, go and look at reviews for a microphone.
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It doesn't have to be amazing. I went down a rabbit hole and kind of thinking,
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oh my god you know I need to get the best microphone ever and I think actually,
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my microphone was something like I can't remember it's about 60 quid or something
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sorry if you can hear that jingling by the way it's my jewelry so I've just
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taken it off and also if you can hear a slight humming,
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that is the fan that I have right next to my face because yes if you are in the UK I.
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We have a major, major, major heat wave. I'm a summer girl. I'm a sun girl through and through.
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But the heat, oh my goodness, we are in the 30 degrees something, mid 30s, I think.
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On that note, if anyone lives in the UK and knows where they are selling any
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aircon units, please help me out because I don't know if you know this,
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but if you follow me on Instagram,
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I'm at the Holly Edwards and I'm also at the Dot Manifestation station,
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you may have seen my good news announcement, which is that I am pregnant.
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Woohoo! Yes, it's out.
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It's a secret no more. To be honest, I couldn't hide it anymore.
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My bump is huge and it's a heat wave. So help a girl out.
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If you've got any good fans, I might buy myself a lilo that I can put water
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in and just laying it like a whale.
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Anyway, I will be doing a podcast on my pregnancy journey because it involves a.
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That may or may not be of interest to you, but I do know I have some clients
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and people who are kind of going through some fertility issues.
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And all I will say is my journey to pregnancy hasn't been particularly easy.
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It's definitely taken a lot of emotional work and physical work,
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and it's not been straightforward.
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So if that is triggering for anybody, I know what it's like if you're trying
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to get pregnant and you see everybody announcing their pregnancies and their
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pictures of their bumps, please know that I totally get you. I've been there too.
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So I am going to record a podcast that may be helpful for some of you or may
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just be of interest to some of you, even if you're not on that journey.
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But I have definitely used a lot.
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I've had to dig really deep actually with my manifesting toolkit to help me
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with this healthy pregnancy which I am oh so grateful.
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Anyway I've had seven minutes of just,
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ranting on nothing to do with today's episode so I guess we should get into
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it so welcome back as always I'm glad that I'm keeping you company for the next
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half an hour or so whether you're walking the dog cleaning house lying in the garden
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with a nice coffee maybe you're in Australia and it's not so hot I know we've
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got the Aussies listening we've got people from South America from Chile from
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Brazil don't know what the weather's doing there but just feel sorry for us
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Brits who are absolutely melting
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now I personally I love this type of time of year I really really do,
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I am a summer girl like I said with a pregnant bump it's a little bit tricky.
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But the evenings are lighter everything feels a little bit slower,
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the flowers are out my garden is blooming people seem happier don't they they
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do seem happier and there's just that lovely feeling that life is happening outside again.
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And I think that's why it's such a really important time of the year to kind
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of harness and utilise to kind of work in our favour.
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And last week, I spoke about a mid-year reset. And if you don't feel like you've
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achieved what you set out to since January, that that's okay.
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We've still got six months of the year left. If you haven't listened to that
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podcast, go back. It's actually been one of the most popular episodes.
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But maybe in January you started off full of motivation. Did you buy the diary?
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Did you do a new vision board? Did you do New Year's resolutions?
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Life happens, doesn't it? Sometimes things don't go to plan.
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We have setbacks, you know, but what we're talking about today,
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I'm here to kind of interrupt that story in general. We've done our mid-year reset.
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Today's episode, I want to talk to you about something very, very important.
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I want this to be your lucky girl summer now I've talked about lucky girl syndrome
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before I absolutely love it it's a theory that,
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some people or actually I should say that you can learn to develop this skill
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but some people have this lucky girl attitude and this lucky girl way of attacking life and,
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what they attract into their life and I believe it's something
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that you can create even if you feel like you're not in your kind of lucky girl
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era I know there's some guys listening we can call this your lucky guy era it
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is mainly women on here but you are welcome also.
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So when I say I'm going to help you get or have a lucky girl summer,
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this is not about pretending life is perfect. It's not about ignoring problems.
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I'm not suggesting that if you simply repeat, I'm lucky, I'm lucky,
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I'm lucky, you'll wake up tomorrow with your dream house and a lottery win.
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You might, you might. Let's not rule that out.
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But I do believe something incredibly powerful happens when you start expecting
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life to work with you instead of against you.
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Because your expectations is your expectations that influence your behavior.
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And your behavior influences your decisions. Your decisions influence your opportunities.
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So before you know it, your whole life starts moving in a different direction
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simply by an energy shift. There's another theory.
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I've just forgotten what it is. It's the law of not expectation.
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Oh, the law of assumption. That's it.
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It's kind of the same thing. It's like kind of you shift your mindset into thinking that, you know.
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It's impossible for me to be a millionaire. Things like that don't happen to me.
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It's impossible for me to find a love that works. That doesn't happen for me.
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The law of assumption is assuming that good things happen to you.
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And more specifically, the things that you want, you are assuming that they are possible for you.
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So I always think that people often look at successful people and they go, oh, they're so lucky.
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But they never see all of the tiny moments that created that luck.
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So that could be you creating your own luck maybe that's the email that you
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sent or the conversation you started with a stranger.
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Saying yes to an event that you nearly didn't go to or the chance that you actually took,
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and that's what I want to explore today because I honestly think luck is something
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we can actually invite into our lives a lot more than we realize it and,
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I think it's also this thing of kind of tuning out to the fact that the universe
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is against us, life is against us, nothing works in our favor.
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I promise you, the universe wants to see you win.
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The universe wants to see you be lucky, but all it is doing is responding to
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your energies and your frequencies that you're putting out there.
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So it's not that the universe has favorites and for some people it just works
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out. It's that those people have just fine-tuned those energies and frequencies.
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Because when we expect or assume that we are going to get beautiful things,
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we become much more open to noticing them and creating them.
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So it's not just sitting there and waiting for our luck to arrive.
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It's the expectation of beautiful things makes us notice them.
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So we open up our eyes more to them.
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But it also means we action it and we kind of create these opportunities as well.
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I've had so many moments. When I think back and I was doing the notes for this
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episode, I was trying to think of kind of lucky girl moments that I've had.
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Now, I have to say that lots of people say to me, oh my God, you're just so lucky.
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You're so lucky that things work out for you.
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And I know it can seem like that.
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But also, firstly, I want to say not everything feels like it works out.
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Sometimes things are hard. Sometimes, you know, I struggle emotionally and with
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that kind of mindset of if I really want something and it's not happening.
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So that's the first thing I want to say.
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The next thing I want to say is that these lucky moments, they were lucky moments,
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but I also actioned them as well. So I definitely think it's a fusion of you
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creating your luck, but also assuming that you will get it.
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So for example, I always remember one of my big kind of milestone lucky girl moments.
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I also work you probably know this about me I also work in film and tv so I
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design the hair for and makeup for films and tv shows so I did a makeup course,
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a diploma course in London about 20 almost 20 years ago my gosh that makes me feel old,
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and everybody said a bit like if you want to go into acting everyone's like
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oh that's a tough industry to crack,
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oh you might not get any work and there's only a few people that get work out
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of each course and blah blah anyway,
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I started reading The Secret while I was training my mum gave it to me and on
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my commutes I was reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne which I feel like was like
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the kind of big law of attraction book that came out most most of you have probably read it.
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And so I started getting this new belief that I could do anything.
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I started actioning things in the book.
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Now, when I finished my makeup course, I was excited. I'd worked incredibly hard to qualify.
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And I passed with flying colors, which I think also was down to my manifesting work.
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But also working really hard and believing that I could do that.
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And then I suddenly realized I kind of finished my course. and I thought,
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hold on a minute, how on earth do people actually get into the film industry?
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It's everyone was like, oh, it's contacts. And you know, it's one of those industries
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where everyone wants experience. So unless you know someone,
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it's quite tricky to get into.
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But how are you supposed to get that experience if no one is going to give you
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the chance? So I'm not going to lie, for a while, it felt a little bit impossible.
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And I remember sitting there thinking, there must be hundreds of people just
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like me all trying to get their foot in the door.
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Now, I could have sat there and convinced myself that nobody would want me.
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I wasn't going to get hired. I was never going to get any work.
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I could have just waited around, been down in the.
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But instead, I decided to do something incredibly small. So I'd had some work
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experience, all unpaid. I even did a six-week unpaid contract with the BBC.
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I don't think you'd be allowed to do that now. I felt so lucky at the time.
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I was like, it's a six-week job. When I look back, I was out of pocket. I wasn't paid a penny.
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And I worked kind of all hours under the sun. But I still felt lucky.
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Maybe when I look back on this story, I think maybe I still had that positive
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attitude that we that we need and that works really well manifesting anyway
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I'd done a week experience a work experience on a,
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film that was being shot in Greenwich for Universal Studios and on this work
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experience week I hardly met anyone because.
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It was so busy there must have been about 100 hair and makeup artists and the
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woman that I was working for I barely got to speak to she was so busy you don't
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want to get in the way I was just getting people's breakfast teas and coffees.
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So we barely knew each other.
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I had no connections with her.
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But I thought, you know what, when I finished my course, I had her email address.
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And I thought, you know what, I'm just going to send her an email.
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And I thought, oh, will she read it? And I thought, it doesn't matter.
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So what, if it ends up in a junk, it's fine. And it wasn't, you know,
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a groundbreaking, incredible cover letter.
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It wasn't pages long. It just simply said, you know, hi, thank you so much for
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the work experience and this was I'd say about a month or two later,
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and I just said thank you for the work experience I really it really helped
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me and it was really great to see the way you worked just to let you know I'm
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now qualified as a make a partisan if you ever happen to need a trainee,
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or more work experience I would absolutely love to come and help you or I'd love to be considered.
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And you know what I pressed send and I didn't really think much more about it,
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but almost immediately I think it might have been the same day or the following
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day my phone rang and it was her,
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And she's a really busy woman. And she just went, hi, Holly.
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I can't believe your email has landed in my inbox today. And she said, are you available?
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It was like a really quick, there was no kind of niceties. And I said, oh, yeah.
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And she said, well, look, your email has landed at the right time.
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I'm looking for a trainee.
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It's on a new Johnny Depp film. It's with Disney. Are you free?
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Do you want the job? That was it.
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And she'd kind of said that she hadn't had time to advertise.
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She hadn't even started searching but you know what my email landed in her lap
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at the exact right moment where she needed someone and she probably thought
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that is easy i can pick holly she can come along i don't have to trail through loads of cds.
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And you know what this was? This was divine timing.
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This was a lucky girl moment. Yes, I had created that luck, I think.
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I'd worked hard on my course.
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I'd worked hard doing lots of free work experience. I'd sent the email.
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So this is where I want you to believe that it's also you actioning your luck
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and kind of welcoming luck to you and creating opportunities.
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But I also think there was a moment of divine timing, luck-wise,
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of the universe helping out by my email happened to land at the right time when
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this job opportunity came through.
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And you know what? My very first paid trainee makeup role was working on Alice
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in Wonderland by Tim Burton, Disney film starring Jodie Depp.
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Can you imagine? Fresh out of makeup school, that's with no industry contacts,
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no experience actually, and suddenly I'd walked onto a Disney set.
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And everyone was like Holly you're so lucky oh my god and do you know what I was,
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the job was incredible if you've seen the film it's also like a makeup dream
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it's creative it's Disney it's
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got an amazing cast honestly it was such a lucky girl moment and it was,
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one thing that I wanted to share with you because,
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I don't think it was just coincidence.
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I don't think there is anything that is just coincidence.
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And this is the thing that the more people expect good things to happen,
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the more these coincidences seem to happen.
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And there is actually a scientific explanation for this. Now,
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you've heard me before speak about this, but your brain has something called
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the reticular activating system or the RAS for short.
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Think of this like your brain's personal filter.
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So every single second, your senses take an enormous amount of information and
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your brain simply can't consciously process all of it.
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So what the RAS does, it simply decides what's important enough to bring to
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your attention and it decides what's important enough by what you're telling it to look for.
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So I always use the example that if you've ever bought a new car,
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and suddenly notice that that exact model you start noticing it everywhere,
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so you'll suddenly be like oh well I like that car that's the car I'm going
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to get and then you go oh there's the car there's the car again and you start
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seeing them everywhere that's your RAS at work it's like this style of car this
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model of car is important to this person,
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therefore I'm going to filter out everything that isn't that car and I'm going
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to bring that car to her attention.
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The cars were probably always there. You just weren't looking for them.
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And the same thing happens with opportunities.
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If you constantly tell yourself, nothing ever works out for me,
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your RAS kicks in. Your brain is only working for you. It's not against you.
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But your brain starts searching for evidence to prove your belief right.
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So therefore, you notice every rejection, every delay, every traffic jam,
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every disappointment, every mistake.
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But what happens is your RAS isn't tuning in and looking for the wins.
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So you'll find that you overlook them, the compliments, the lucky opportunities,
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the people trying to help you.
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And just a reminder, your brain is not trying to make you miserable.
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It is trying to prove you right.
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So therefore this means that we each have a choice what if we started giving our brains something,
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much more hopeful to look for so instead of waking up expecting problems if
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we woke up wondering and using the law of assumption which I was talking about.
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You could wake up and say I wonder what lovely thing is going to happen to me today,
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and it's not because every day is going to be perfect it's not but because every
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day contains something worth noticing,
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if we're paying attention and this is where our lucky girl summer honestly truly begins,
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and that is why I wanted to do this episode we're coming into summer if we're in the UK,
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if you are someone else you can call it your lucky girl winter that totally works too.
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So I think one of the biggest misconceptions with manifestation is that lucky
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people sometimes somehow have easier lives.
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I promise you they don't. So if you're one of those who, you know how I've said
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people often look and go, Holly, everything works out for you. You get so much luck.
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I promise you, I still get rejections. I still have bad days.
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I still have plans fall through.
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But the difference is with these lucky people is that they don't make those
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moments mean that their whole life is unlucky.
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It's very easy to get caught up in feeling like a victim of the world.
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And I don't like to say that because it sounds judgmental, but it's very easy.
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Like I've got a friend who I love dearly, but she's always like,
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even in jest, see, told you, nothing works out for me oh just my luck I haven't
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met the man of my dream just my luck I got ghosted,
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so that is actually it's honing in and making those moments bigger than they
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are and making your brain and your mindset and your energy feel like life is unlucky,
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and that changes everything in instead if you start to believe enough opportunities
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just around the corner this is where your luck will change this is where lucky
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girl summer is going to come in and I'm going to give you some hacks.
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The hacks are coming up, guys. You might want to grab a pen and paper or just
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pause me and re-listen to me whenever you need.
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But here is lucky girl hack number one.
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So I quite often recommend this to my clients. But what I want you to do,
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first of all, is to collect lucky evidence.
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So most of us or most people spend their lives collecting evidence that they're unlucky.
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So they will tell everyone, my train's delayed, it got rained off,
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my meeting got cancelled, oh, they never replied, I got ghosted,
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my parcel's late, my order hasn't arrived.
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So we become detectives for everything that is going wrong.
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But what if we decided on our, I was going to say hot girl summer,
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but it's lucky girl summer, we can have hot girl summer too though, can't we?
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What if we became tech detectives for everything going right?
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So that's what I want you to do for the next seven days.
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You become the detective for everything that's going right. So I genuinely want
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you to fully investigate. Write these things down. Don't just keep them in your head.
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Write them down onto paper so you are gathering evidence.
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These could be the most tiniest moments, like someone held the door open for you.
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Maybe your coffee was made exactly how you like it.
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Maybe you got the last parking space.
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Maybe your child gave you an unexpected cuddle. Maybe you found five pounds in an old handbag.
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Maybe someone complimented your
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outfit. Maybe you laughed so hard with a friend that your stomach hurt.
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Love those moments. Maybe you caught the most incredible sunset.
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Maybe you got home just before the rain started.
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These moments seem tiny but they're
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not and I want you to realize that how tiny they seem means that you,
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every single one of you will be able to find a handful at least of things every
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day for evidence to back up that you're in your lucky girl era,
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because every single one is telling your brain see lovely things happen to me
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and your RAS can kick in your brain starts believing and guess what it begins noticing even more.
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So this is one of the easiest ways to change your mindset.
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Lucky girl hack number two is expect something good.
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So every morning before you even look at your phone, I want you to ask yourself one question.
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I wonder what lovely thing is going to happen to me today.
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Now, little secret, I do this a lot.
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There are days, sometimes days when I need it or some days when I'm feeling lucky.
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I don't do it every day, but sometimes I go, do you know what?
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Something amazing is going to happen today.
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And I love this because there's no pressure. You're not demanding that something
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extraordinary happens. You're just saying, I wonder what lovely thing is going to happen today.
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And you know what happens? You are simply becoming open to possibility.
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Some days it might be something huge and you'll have a new job offer.
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Other days it might be tiny, but either way, your brain starts scanning for
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moments instead of problems.
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Now, I've suddenly remembered there's another lucky girl moment that I had a
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few years back. It's probably about actually about a decade ago.
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So I was well into my manifesting journey by then. And I remember one of my
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friends came over from abroad.
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And we desperately wanted to go to the theatre to see the Book of Mormon.
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We wanted to see it for ages.
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It had recently opened and tickets were sold out in London. So getting tickets
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were impossible. And he said, Holly, I've looked everywhere.
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We can't get tickets to Book of Mormon. We're going to have to look somewhere else.
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So he accepted defeat, which I understand. He'd gone to the ticket office.
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They said, you're not going to get tickets. There aren't any available.
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He was like, look, there's no point. We won't get in.
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And I said, look, how about we go to the theatre and check? He was like,
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look, it's sold out. Don't worry about it.
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And do you know what? I don't know what it was. Call it coincidence.
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You know, I don't believe in coincidences.
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I just had this feeling. And I remember saying to him that, trust me,
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we are going to get tickets. We are going to see the Book of Bournemouth Day.
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He was laughing like, Holly, this manifesting journey, really?
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And he was excited. He was like, oh, my God, if you pull this off,
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Holly, you are the manifesting queen, honestly, of all the time.
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So we went to the actual theatre, which I never do to get tickets as well.
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And I thought, do you know what? I'm just going to ask them.
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I thought the worst that they can say is no, we'll go and see something else.
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We'll still have a lovely time. We'll go for dinner.
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Maybe we'll go and get some cocktails. I thought there's nothing lost.
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There was no pressure on it. I wasn't like, I must get the tickets.
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I just had this good feeling. But I was also like, sod it. Let's try it.
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Let's have a little laugh.
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So you will never guess what happened so I went in,
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and I spoke to this lady behind the counter and I said look hi I know that you
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you've got a sold out performance today we would love to get a ticket what can
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we do have you got anything,
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and she turns me she went well do you know what this is really unusual and I thought here we go,
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here's the lucky moment. So she explained, wait for this, I think this is a
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humdinger of a manifestation.
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She explained that someone who was meant to be sitting in, wait for it,
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the royal box couldn't make the performance that evening. It was someone to
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do with something to do with the show, like a director or producer or something like that.
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And she said, those tickets have just become available as we're allowed to resell
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them? She said, would you like those? So I thought.
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Wow hold on a minute you're telling me there's no tickets but the royal box
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is available and I thought hold on a minute if these are a thousand pounds,
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then you know that's a funny joke for the universe to play but anyway the performance
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was starting in about an hour,
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so I was like well how much are they and I can't remember the price but she
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was like look we are paying we are selling them for a fraction of the usual
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price and I remember thinking it was literally like the same prizes,
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just getting the stools.
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And I was like, I cannot believe this. I turned to my friend who was,
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like I say, wanting to play being a tourist.
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And I was like, should we get them? They were something like,
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I feel like it was like 80 or 90 quid each for us to have the Royal Box to ourselves.
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I could not believe it. Honestly, we went into the Royal Box.
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We watched the show. It's the only time I've ever sat in the royal box,
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and my friend turned around to me halfway and was like Holly this manifesting
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thing it actually works and do you know what I look back to this day and I'm
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like I kind of go yeah I knew it would I knew it worked,
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now was that luck absolutely but here's what I think made the difference we gave,
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luck somewhere to find us if we'd have stayed at home saying it's sold out nothing
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would have happened but you know what we showed up we asked we believed we didn't put pressure on it.
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And I think that's what's amazing about this lucky girl era this lucky girl
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summer that you guys are about to have it's about.
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Being open to opportunities creating our luck and the law of assumption by expecting
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amazing things to happen.
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Now, I have a lucky girl hack number three for you. So, become someone people
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remember. Now, I love this one. It's so important.
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People often think opportunities come from being qualified, and sometimes they do.
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But so often, they come from people. People remember energy,
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and people, most importantly, remember how you made them feel.
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And you know what? This is why I just want you to lift your mood and to kind of just shed the,
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bitterness or any kind of grumpiness or misery start smiling at people learn
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people's names learn people's names in your local coffee shop,
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or the people that pull the pint behind the bar at your local pub say thank
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you to people send the message first if you appreciate a friend or a loved one
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just tell them for no reason,
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leave a lovely review on a small business site compliment someone sincerely
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celebrate other people's wins be generous with your encouragement.
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You do this because not to gain anything from it you do this to raise your energies
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and to just to be that beacon of light you've got nothing to lose.
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It does have a bit of a side effect because you just don't know who's quietly
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watching it, but it raises your mood and it's like it opens a window for possibilities
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and opportunities that come to you.
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I guarantee you, you will feel all the better for doing it.
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And I've lost count of the number of opportunities that come into my life because
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someone remembered me months or years later not necessarily because I was qualified for it,
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but hopefully maybe with how I made them feel or a moment that we had together,
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and I think that's what I want you to remember if you're thinking well I couldn't
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get a job like that or I couldn't get an opportunity like that not.
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It these opportunities don't necessarily go to the most talented people in the
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room they go to people that make people feel good that people remember because
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I don't know maybe you were kind to them. Maybe you had a moment with them.
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And being kind makes you feel lucky too. It just shifts your focus away from
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the negatives and the feelings what you don't have, and actually towards what
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you can give, what you can give to humanity.
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And there's something incredibly abundant about that feeling.
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Honestly, it will change your life.
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Now, lucky girl hack number before is to romanticize the ordinary.
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And I think one of the luckiest feelings in the world is realizing that happiness
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isn't always hiding inside the big milestones.
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Now, I've been manifesting for 20 years. And I think this is something that
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has only really, really struck me.
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The more I've researched into manifesting, particularly when I've been doing
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my podcast, like in the last couple of years,
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because sometimes the luckiest feelings, the happiest moments,
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they can be hiding in just like an ordinary Tuesday.
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And lucky girl summer isn't about going on a round the world cruise about the
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biggest, most expensive holiday. It's not about designer handbags.
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It's not about the perfect life on Instagram. It's about deciding what today is worth enjoying.
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Now, I'm a big one on this. I keep thinking my second book might have to be
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about romanticizing life. I have done one or two episodes about romanticizing
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life. You can have a scroll back and find those if you want.
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But this is about making the ordinary moments in your life feel extraordinary
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so just elevating like I'm looking I brought my
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recording equipment down to my kitchen today I've just added some new flowers
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like a really big large bouquet of flowers and I went and bought them yesterday
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I was sick of looking at my empty,
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sorry for itself bars and this is romanticizing my life that they only cost
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me about four pounds or something it wasn't even an expensive bunch but it's
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romanticizing the ordinary it's.
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Drinking your water from a pretty glass I don't know putting a lovely garnish
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in it and using ice and maybe drinking your water from a wine glass it's buying yourself flowers,
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it's wearing the perfume that you've been saving for a special occasion
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it's sitting in the garden with your coffee for 10 minutes it's it's setting
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aside time to watch the sunset it's opening the windows it's playing music while
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you clean it's dancing around the kitchen,
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is walking barefoot in the grass. It's.
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To stop waiting for special occasions like your life is the special occasion
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and it's about romanticizing every day the more you do this and I promise you
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this is what I've been doing the last couple of years
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and it has changed my life I find every day I'm like what can I do to add a
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little bit of joy in today
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is it going to get my favorite lunch is it going to I don't know going to the,
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shop to get some goodies for a lovely salad?
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Or is it, I try and make, yeah, I try and make my drinks in fancy glasses.
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I have a special cup at home. It makes me feel wholesome.
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And how simple is that? Honestly, guys, think about it. How simple is that?
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It's really not much to it.
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That's all it takes for.
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You to raise your vibrations and to elevate your life and this is what I want
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you to remember this is about elevating your life it's about using these hacks,
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to lift your energy can you see how this would lift your energy and open up
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your life to opportunities,
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so I want us all to do something together this week so you've got a few hacks
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there that you can do from time to time please come back in,
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check in with this episode or write these down in your journal or something.
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But for the next seven days, I want to do something together.
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So I want you to become your own lucky girl scientist. So every morning before
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you pick up your phone, say these words out loud, which is one of your hacks,
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something lovely is going to happen to me today.
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And I want you to do it for the next seven days and then simply go about your day.
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And every evening, I want you to write down three moments that made you smile
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they don't have to be huge sometimes I actually think the smaller the better,
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and I gave you some of those examples before it could be a stranger smiled at
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you your favorite song came on the radio you found exactly what you needed in the supermarket,
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whatever it is I want you to show yourself and show the universe that these tiny moments matter.
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And this is it, guys. I really want you to feel the luck. I want you to feel the energy shift.
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And just imagine at this time, let's say, imagine it's now New Year's Eve.
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So we're in July at the moment. Let's imagine it's New Year's Eve.
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You're sitting on the sofa, you've got hot chocolate, the Christmas tree is
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up, and you're thinking back over the last six months.
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What do you hope you'll remember.
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Not how many emails you answered, not how many loads of washing you did,
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not how many hours you spent scrolling.
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I think you'll remember moments. You'll remember,
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the spontaneous picnic that you took in the summer, the phone call that made
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you cry with happy tears, that beautiful coffee you had with a friend,
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the opportunity you took that you nearly talked yourself out of
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these small moments will be what you reflect on at the end of the year and I promise you,
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if you can tune into these moments you are going to activate your lucky girl
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summer and I am all here for it now if you know someone who needs a little bit of lucky girl summer.
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That is simply it. So I want to say to you, have the most amazing,
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beautiful lucky girl summer look for the magic create the magic,
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and remember you are exactly where you're meant to be right now goodbye.